The Sierra Club has been leading efforts to stop the construction of
new coal plants and retire old ones. As of a statement Thursday, the Beyond Coal Campaign has discontinued or prevented the operation of 100 coal plants since 2002, preventing 400 million tons of CO2.

Earlier this year we reported that the public relations firm behind the coal industry's multi-million dollar marketing blitz
to put a clean shiny new face on coal was boasting their ability to
manipulate the opinions of both Democratic and Republican politicians.

I remember it was almost a year ago now that we started Coal is Dirty and it's lonely little single page orphan site Coal is Clean. Since then the oppostion to the spindoctors and coal lobbyists spending millions to try and refram coal as somehow being clean has grown leaps and bounds.

Here's a small sampling of some of the many bloggers who have done a great job at dispelling this myth.

On Monday afternoon, pro-coal activists like the impassioned young man shown above gathered near Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. as part of a “Celebrate Coal!” counter-protest against a massive anti-coal rally taking place at the nearby Capitol Power Plant.

If you thought the application to expand a coal-fired electricity plant in Kansas was dead, think again.

Big Coal and their political allies in the Kansas State legislature
have introduced a slick new Bill that if passed will make it very
difficult for the massive Sunflower Electric coal plant expansion to
not go ahead.

Don Blankenship, CEO of Massey Energy (NYSE: MEE) the fourth largest coal producer in the United States thinks Gore, Pelosi, Reid and environmentalists are crazy, atheist, communist Greeniacs who lie about climate change and other environmental issues.

A new campaign has been launched
taking straight aim at the multi-million dollar effort by the coal
industry and their front groups to convince us all that somehow the
dirtiest energy source in the world is somehow clean.